Student organizations at UCR have been employing several strategies to register students to vote, with the U.S. midterms approaching on Nov. 6, and the voter registration deadline having been Oct. 22 for the state of California. One of the major contributors to this movement was CALPIRG, who registered more than 1,000 UCR students, according to Mya Ho, an activist...
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, ASUCR held its fifth meeting of the quarter at 6:33 p.m.
During the approval of the agenda, CHASS Senator Julian Gonzalez motioned to add Student Resolution (SR) F18003 to the agenda, which states that UCR students stand in solidarity with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). AFSCME Local 3299, which represents university...
James Sandoval, the former vice chancellor of student affairs who abruptly retired from UCR in Dec. 2017 shortly after being placed on administrative leave, has had an extensive pattern of sexual harassment exposed by an investigation conducted by the UC Office of the President (UCOP). The investigation was launched after an anonymous source within the Division of Student Affairs...
ASUCR is working on creating Student Democracy Day, a day aimed to institutionalize Midterm Election Day as an official school holiday of civic service, ensuring UCR students a day off on the day of the Midterm Election, allowing students at UC Riverside the opportunity to exercise their right to vote by utilizing on-campus class and work time.
Speaking to...
The Inland Empire Poverty Summit was a conference held jointly by the UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty, a research program dedicated to understanding and combating regional poverty, and CalEITC4Me, a partnership between public and private entities with the goal of spreading awareness about the EITC. The event was held on Monday, Oct. 15, and featured notable...
Proposition 1: Proposition 1 authorizes $4 million in bonds to fund existing affordable housing programs, loans, grants and projects specifically for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill and transit-oriented housing. The measure would distribute the bond revenue with $1 billion for the CalVet Home Loan Program, $1.5 billion for the Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), $150 million...
On Monday, Oct. 15, Ivan’s at Hinderaker, once a walk-up window cafe in front of Hinderaker Hall, was reopened as a barista-style kiosk inside of the building.
Ivan’s manager, Julie Ann Zeno, spoke with the Highlander about the process and goals of the renovation. Zeno explained that the choice was made “a few years back” after UCR first decided to...
Over the course of 2017, the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), a student-led activist group that addresses issues such as “environmental (and) consumer protection, and hunger and homelessness,” worked to garner support towards Senate Bill 100 (SB 100). If passed the following September, SB 100 would “require California to obtain 100% of its power from clean sources by...
On Oct. 10, 2018 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the UC system with the 2018 Green Power Leadership Award in the direct project engagement category for sustainability efforts such as the Carbon-Neutral initiative and Clean Energy missive to be completed by 2025. The achievement follows the system’s 2017 Excellence in Green Power award and joins a...
The fourth ASUCR senate meeting of the quarter took place on Wednesday, Oct. 17 in HUB 221 at 6:30 p.m. in order to discuss current affairs and vote on the three nominations to fill the Judicial Council. Large scale building projects on campus were also discussed. All except CNAS senator Josiah Davis were in attendance.
After approval of the agenda,...